What's the most uncomfortable movie or TV scene you've ever seen?

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Uncomfortable can mean anything, scary, sad, creepy, gory etc...

I was just watching AHS this afternoon, the Cult season and there is a scene with a nail gun (if you've seen it you'll know!).

I am really not a squeamish person but this scene just made me go cold, I was about to fast forward it before it finished.

It wasn't even the most gruesome thing I've seen on TV/a movie before but the whole idea just made me feel really uncomfortable and like I was really horrible for watching it if that makes sense?

That's The Omen I think?

'The Platform' - when the guy pisses on the food, knowing full well that the people 'below' have no choice but to eat it, or starve to death.

Black Mirror - The National Anthem. So, so, so uncomfortable. Particularly when you realise they had released the Princess anyway, before the Primeminister pleasured himself with the pig, so he essentially did it for no reason.

'The end of the f*ing world' - when the two teenagers are in the house and have realised a serial killer lives there, but they think he's left and won't be coming back, so they bed down for the night. After he comes back, he enters the upstairs bedroom where the girl is sleeping and she tries to bullshit her way out of the room and you think she's going to get away with it, until he locks the door and you suddenly realise that she has no chance. My heart dropped and my blood ran cold, I think that's the most a TV show or film has ever scared me as much.

@beansonbread that is possibly the worst thing I've ever watched too

@RiseUpWiseUpEyesUp - agreed. I think it was a little too much for a program aimed at teens/young adults.

A quote that will forever stay with me is "they smell better when they burn" from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. I cried so much

Anyone watched Vikings and the eagle torture method is carried out?
Human sacrifices as well. It was pretty horrific to watch at points

Jodie Foster in The Accused has to be up there as one of the most brutal

I avoid all horror films because I like sleeping and not staring at the ceiling at 3am too scared to close my eyes, so lots of the things mentioned here I would never watch.
I do remember the deep fat fryer scene in Spooks. I refused to watch any more of them.
The thing that has stuck in my head is an Eastenders scene that was shown on Children in need or Comic Relief. One of the female characters is taken to a party by her boyfriend and there is only one other girl there. The other girl says she is glad to see her and happy that she won’t have to deal with all the men alone. The regular character realises that she is expected to have sex with them and escapes out of a bedroom window leaving the other girl behind.
It upset me so much and I still think about it years later

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13 Reasons Why there is a scene where a boy is raped with the end of a mop by the main jock. It's awful.

12 Years a Slave when the poor young girl gets tied to a tree and whipped.

The Pianist when the SS make the starving Jews in the ghetto dance just to make fun of them.

An episode of baywatch, believe it or not. A woman is underwater in a swimming pool and drops her wedding ring down the filter, she tries to get it but her hand gets stuck so she's about to drown...

Don't know if anyone has said it but for me it's the bit in the ring (can't remember if it's the american or Japanese one) but on the video it shows the girl pushing her hand on the wall trying to get out of the well and it goes through a nail and breaks her nail off. I can't watch stuff like that

Oh and the bit in the Japanese film the eye where he's in the corner of the lift levitating towards her and you're just watching with wide eyes praying the lift opens in time

@chilling19

SaucyHorse - are you thinking about the film based on the life story about Frances Farmer?

No, it was Camille Claudel. A good film but that part did really get to me. I think people still don't agree about whether she really was mentally ill or not in real life, but the way it was presented in the film and her powerlessness was upsetting.

Oops name change fail.

@calamityjam

The walking dead where Glen has his head caved in by Negan. It's the horrible build up and gruesome scene and the other characters reactions together which makes it so difficult to watch

This, it really was gruesome, terrifying and completely on edge of seat viewing. Glen was a much loved character for me. And Abraham had it happen too.

Also where Rick has to shoot Lori in the head as she was turning, that was horrific. There have been some really horrible scenes in the Walking Dead. Hershel being decapitated, and Carol killing that young girl....

The torture scenes in The Girl Next Door. It's about the real life case of Sylvia Likens who was tortured for a month until she died, by the woman looking after her for her parents who worked in a traveling circus. The woman, Eunice, also got her kids & their friends involved. Sylvia was starved, beaten & kicked daily (kicked so badly between the legs she lost all blader control), raped, branded & Eunice used a blowtorch on her genitals.

@sdg31000. The Eastenders scene was quite shocking, especially as it was shown in Children in Need. Little Mo’s storyline was fairly uncomfortable as well, the domestic abuse.

A scene in the tv series The Leftovers where a woman gets stoned. I like watching horror films and went through a phase of watching some frankly really weird Japanese horror films but that scene always stuck in my mind. DH watched all of the first series of The Leftovers but for reasons I could never quite put my finger on, I absolutely hated it. It just felt like such a weird, incredibly depressing series.

A show on Netflix called Women Who Kill or something similar where a pregnant women and her partner were having an argument and she pushed him through the window of their high rise apartment. She says it was an accident and later died by suicide in prison. I felt like I could feel her sheer panic and terror when she looked out the window and saw what happened, the sudden silence, it’s stayed with me a while.

@EyeDrops I remember those farm safety films so vividly. They really affected me. I had nightmares for months.

Not long after I moved from my rural primary to an inner city one where we were shown another set of films for inner city kids which involved train tracks/overhead power cables, an electrical substation and entering disused buildings. Went through it all again.

Lots of Black Mirror, but White Bear has stayed with me and just won't go away. Subsequent episodes have made references back to it, including a hint that the main character was appealing against her sentence, and I really wanted to know if she was successful. Even though she wasn't real!

The whole of The Changeling was disturbing but the very end, when the mother walks out into the street and the credits roll over an ordinary street scene, is just unbearably sad to me for some reason. Maybe the sense of life going on for everyone else while her life has essentially stopped? The music is beautiful too.

[quote cheesecurdsandgravy]@EyeDrops I remember those farm safety films so vividly. They really affected me. I had nightmares for months.

Not long after I moved from my rural primary to an inner city one where we were shown another set of films for inner city kids which involved train tracks/overhead power cables, an electrical substation and entering disused buildings. Went through it all again.[/quote]
Yes yes! Public education films shown in schools - featuring certain death or mutliation via train tracks, building sites, farmyards.... the full kid traumatising package!

The horrific early aids information films which were totally set to scare weren’t very nice either.

I aatched a film called Trafficked, on Prime last night.
Good film and obviously this happens, but v disturbing in many parts, particularly the scene with the dead girls being pulled off the back of the truck.